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...just as the rest of us should stick to ours when we think its principles are wrong. But when it gets rightly criticized for a dumb decision, and then follows up on that dumb decision with two cowardly ones, let’s not kid ourselves with all this banter about free speech...
Jost said that more than answering trivia questions—“I’m not great at trivia,” he said—he enjoyed the casual banter the game encouraged from its contestants...
...concentrator Jimmy A. Friedkin ’04. Reasoning that a 2 a.m. solo visit from a member of the opposite sex was most likely booty-related, Friedkin was not pleased when Hansen announced that she had come to decorate his room. After 45 minutes of awkward room-decoration banter, Friedkin made his move. “After she moved my floor lamp across the room I told her there was one other long pole in the room that she needed to grab,” he remembers, “so she punched me in the kidney and left...
...most of all, the album simply avoids the usual pitfalls of live albums—poor sound quality, tone-deaf guitar work, inane stage banter, etc. James Lynch and Marc Orrell’s guitars roar without overpowering the songs; indeed, two of the Murphys’ most rousing offerings (“For Boston” and a strangely moving “Amazing Grace”) feature enigmatic bagpiper Spicy McHaggis. Even the audience comes through in the clutch, shouting lyrics word-for-word when charismatic frontman Al Barr’s voice drops out. Of course, nothing...
...would have been an unremarkable exchange, if only the two men hadn't been live on the air, purportedly delivering television commentary on the Open for Italy's Tele+ cable network. This, however, was typically digressive banter from Clerici, 72, and Tommasi, 68. An announcing tandem for more than 20 years, they fill their broadcasts with more random ruminations, mutual dissing and off-color commentary than Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. "Even people who don't like tennis will watch them to hear what outrageous things they're saying and doing," says Rita Grande, an Italian currently ranked...